[October 2024] Hokuryu Town Portal Operation Report

• All information on the Hokuryu Town Portal:Website, Hokuryu Town Portal" + "Facebook page, Treasures of Hokuryu Town" + "Instagram, Treasures of Hokuryu Town" + "Youtube/Hokuryu Town Portal"
• Access Analysis:Google Analytics 4 (GA4) in use since June
• Operator:Hokuryu Town Community Supporter, Ikuko Terauchi, Hokuryu Town Portal Volunteer Management Cooperation (photography, editing, and updating): Noboru Terauchi

◉ October: Number of visitors: 16,143 people (average 520 people/31 days)
◉ October: Number of articles: 272 (average 12 articles/22 working days)

October: Hokuryu Town Portal - Access from around the world

◉ Japan: 10,375 people (93% of total)
◉ Overseas: 724 people (7% of the total)
(148 from Singapore, 117 from Indonesia, 83 from the United States, 54 from France, 52 from Taiwan, 43 from Hong Kong, etc. Total of 63 countries / 196 UN member states)

Website ・Hokuryu Portal

October Feature Articles: 15

1. Hokuryu Sunflower Rice New Rice Thanksgiving Festival 2024 (October 1st)
2. Fifth graders from Shinryu Elementary School "Rice Farming Experience" - Observing rice threshing, hulling and color sorting machines (October 7th)
3. Slowly savor the red flesh melons from Yasunori Watanabe Farm on a long autumn night (October 9th) 
4. Hokuryu Town Volunteer Group "Smile Association" Exchange Meeting 2024 to be held! Terauchi introduces this year's Hokuryu Town in a video! (October 9th)
5. Orange Cafe (Dementia Cafe) held! Enjoy cheerful and fun conversations and draw on mini pumpkins! (October 10th)
6. The 53rd Hokuryu Town Sunflower Olympics 2024 (October 15th)
7. Soba Shokuraku Club Hokuryu "Enjoying New Soba 2024" A blissful moment tasting delicious "new soba" from Hokuryu Town (October 16th)
8. Tasting grapes grown on the Fujisaki family's farm (October 17th)
9. Tasting the grapes from the Nakajima Family Natural Garden! (October 17th)
10. I was impressed by the garden tree "Kokuwa (Monkey Pear)" in the Nakajima Family Natural Garden! (October 18th)
11. The brilliance of youth is resurrected! With gratitude for the precious memories of youth, "On the Hill Where Sunflowers Bloom"! (October 21st)
12. Projection Mapping Night 2024: Mysterious space unfolds (October 21st)
13. Wa Neighborhood Association Senior Citizens Club Training and Exchange Meeting 2024 (October 28th)
14. A blissful moment with cornmeal cake, cookies, and corn tea! (October 29th)
15. [Video] Taste the Seasons in Hokuryu Town 2024 - A variety of delicious dishes made with ingredients from Hokuryu Town (October 31st)

A treasure of the town of Hokuryu:

🌻 Photo posting (uploaded to Google Photos: 37 photos)

Multilingual (4 languages) system under construction and operation

❂ June 30, 2024 ~: English and Traditional Chinese, August 1 ~: Indonesian, (November 3 ~: Vietnamese)